<p>i'm an international student from asia and i'm gonna major in engineering sciences at dartmouth. I know that dartmouth is a great school in the states, but what about its reputation worldwide? </p>
<p>I also know that those world rankings are not accurate, but why is it ranked so low compared to its ivy-peers? </p>
<p>some insights from international students who are currently studying in dartmouth would be great.</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>brown and dartmouth are low on the radar for international prestige b/c they have minimal graduate schools. Considering the fact that cutting-edge research makes a university famous these days, brown and dartmouth are low when it comes to international fame. It’s ok though, I’m a '14 and I know that everyone that’s gonna matter in my life knows the prestige/fame of Dartmouth.</p>
<p>plain and simple: it’s in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>Minimal grad schools, small size, no big sports.</p>
<p>Dartmouth has always done incredibly well in ways that research based rankings do not show because it has very few graduate programs. As an undergraduate institution that gets you the most prestigious jobs and into elite graduate schools, however, it excels among the top 6 or so schools in the country. </p>
<p>Dartmouth allows undergrads to excel, unfortunately this matters less to International criteria that often put graduate and undergraduate schools together. In the US, often this is not the case.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is not even “famous” in the US, if fame means immediately recognizable, for the reasons that hmom and others have pointed out. </p>
<p>btw: Engineering at Dartmouth is unlike what you will find at top Eng schools such as MIT, Stanford, Cal-Berkeley, at the like. It’s typically a five year program that requires liberal arts. It is not highly ranked as a department.</p>
<p>I actually think that Dartmouth should be considered a LAC, not a “research university.” It’s really something in between.</p>
<p>is there a reason that dartmouth should be famous worldwide?</p>
<p>^Of course, it’s a much finer undergrad institution than the ones most believe are the top.</p>
<p>undergrad programs don’t really become famous, though. universities become famous, and then that prestige trickles down to their undergrad.</p>
<p>Please don’t feed the ■■■■■■ :)</p>
<p>8thkey - world rankings simply ranks how good a schools is at research. Those rankings are not ranking undergrad programs. It always surprises me to see Dartmouth rank higher in rankings that focuses on research compared to Tsinghua (the premier science& tech university of China that has 5 times the students & faculty of that of Dartmouth). If you want a school that ranks high in world rankings, go to UC Berkeley, University of Minnesota, or Georgia Tech. Don’t go to Dartmouth for engineering. Going to any Ivy to studying engineering may well be a waste of money (speaking for at the undergrad level).</p>
<p>honestly though if you want prestige, you have to go to Harvard. Yale and Princeton don’t even make the cut at times.</p>
<p>Don’t you worry. Jim Kim’s putting us right back on the map.</p>